a heap of hay or peats, Old Irish ais, a heap, Welshdâs, Old Welsh das, Middle Breton dastum, to mass, *dasti- (for Gaelic and Welsh); Anglo-Saxon tass (whence French tas). Bezzenberger and Stokes correlate it with Norse des, hay heap, Scottish dass.
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a musical instrument:
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dais, dois
a blockhead (H.S.D.), daiseachan, insipid rhymer (Arms.); seemingly borrowed from the Scottish dawsie, stupid, dase stupefy. For root, See dàsachd. Norsedasi, lazy fellow.
a blockhead (H.S.D.), daiseachan, insipid rhymer (Arms.); seemingly borrowed from the Scottish dawsie, stupid, dase stupefy. For root, See dàsachd. Norsedasi, lazy fellow.